Pallarès Solsona 8-Inch Professional Kitchen Shears

The Spaniards make the best kitchen shears we’ve used to date. They’re more of a commitment, meaning the price point is higher than other shears out there, but we’ve not found anything comparable in quality or heft. Like our favorite little kitchen knives, they’re handmade by a third-generation knife company in the small town of Solsona, Spain, not far from Barcelona, and we expect them to be part of our kitchen decades from now. We use them every day for a range of tasks:

• trimming mushrooms
• shredding herbs without crushing them
• snipping sun-dried tomatoes or pitted dates
• used directly in cans of whole tomatoes
• friends’ swear by them for use with poultry
• cutting flowers, kitchen herbs, and spices
• for cutting twine or cheesecloth for bouquet garni
• trimming pastry